Ben Lee Quotes
I've tried to make music that's more universal, but for me, it's most successful emotionally when it's most specific to what I'm going through.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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As prime minister, I changed Israel's position on peace negotiations. I made it clear that we are ready to go along with Resolution 242 of the U.N. Security Council, which specifies withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries in the context of peace.
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I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.
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Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.
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I did 'I'd Do Anything,' and then a play and then 'A Little Light Music.' I played jazz in a night club where nobody listened to me for two years. I sold cereal in a market for a while. I worked in a clothes shop in Brixton. But that's the life of an actor. You never really know when your next job is coming.
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It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction.
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I've tried to make music that's more universal, but for me, it's most successful emotionally when it's most specific to what I'm going through.
